Before Rep. Frank Tomaszewski and the 11 others utter another word about pumping up the 2026 dividend, they need to identify budget cuts and tax increases that total $1.5 billion to avoid a deficit. For some reason they have forgotten to do that again this year.
Read More“So I think you were the guy,” an irritated Sen. Dan Sullivan said to Sen. Forrest Dunbar Wednesday, “that asked me last year about Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security.”
“When you asked me, I said ‘We’re not gonna cut Medicaid.’”
“You know who cut Medicaid for Alaska? Chuck Schumer. All right. That’s a fact. I wish that you and others could have gone to Schumer and said hey why are you cutting Medicaid for Alaska?” Sullivan said.
It’s not a fact.
Read MoreSen. Forrest Dunbar again asked Sen. Dan Sullivan a good question, one of the six questions allowed before the legislative discussion was cut off, leaving 17 questions unaddressed Wednesday.
“You’ve said yes to Trump many times. I’m wondering if you’re willing to say no?” Dunbar asked.
Sullivan never answered the question.
Read MoreThere will not be any questions that make Sen. Dan Sullivan uncomfortable when he speaks to the Legislature. And there won’t be many questions.
I’m not buying the cover story that Sullivan would love to answer more than four questions from select legislators, but he has a flight to catch. He wants to make sure he has time to answer at least one question from each caucus, the cover story goes.
Senate President Sen. Gary Stevens and House Speaker Rep. Bryce Edgmon should allow for an open discussion and start the proceedings early, at 10 a.m. instead of 11 a.m., if Sullivan has a flight to catch.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan is demanding that legislators not ask him more than four questions in total when he speaks to the Legislature Wednesday, one from each caucus.
The first question to candidate Sullivan should be, “Why are you limiting questions this way? No one else representing Alaska in Congress has ever been afraid to answer questions from the Legislature.”
I think the answer is that he thinks he will be asked questions that he is not comfortable in answering.
Read MoreHow would Abraham Lincoln deal with the Permanent Fund Dividend?
The brightest Republican minds in Juneau put that question to the legions of Republican candidates hoping to become governor.
They didn’t ask the governor wannabes to opine on whether George Washington and Jesus would be OK with a $1,000 dividend. Or if the Great Emancipator would have liked the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Read MoreAnyone who reads the memo Dahlstrom approved with the Department of Justice can see that she agreed to give personal data on all Alaska voters—going far beyond the information that is available to the public—and approved allowing the Department of Justice to give her instructions on who should be removed from the voter rolls.
Read MoreRep. Nick Begich the Third either doesn’t understand the voter suppression bill he supported or he lied about it in an interview with Alaska Public Media.
Nicholas the Third said that showing an Alaska driver’s license would be all anyone needs to register to vote.
Read MoreThe Dunleavy administration has violated the privacy of more than a half-million Alaskans and quietly surrendered control of a vital state function to the Trump administration.
It has signed off on a scheme to have the Trump administration decide who is eligible to vote in Alaska.
We’ve never had a clearer example of succumbing to illegal federal overreach without a whimper.
Read MoreRep. Nick Begich the Third has voted to make it harder for thousands of Alaskans to participate in elections, complying with orders from Donald Trump to back a voter suppression plan.
Nicholas The Third claimed he was voting for the “gold standard” of election safety. He’s wrong.
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